Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you spend your life sitting in a cubicle and passing papers, one day is bound to blend unmemorably into the next - and disappear.
I've been on the road since 1983. Nothing ever changed, even when I was doing TV and movies.
People seem to want to follow the beaten path. The difficulty is that the beaten path doesn't seem to be leading anywhere.
Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.
It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.
I always direct the same film. I cannot distinguish one from the other.
Can you imagine what it would be like to know that your life was just going to be a series of days that were all the same, that were do-overs?
Stale water is a poor drink. Stale skill is worse. And the man who walks in his own footsteps only ends where he began.
Every life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, without caring to know where he is.
The only thing that would change would be the year, the names. It just got to be a repetitious life.
bureaucracy, safely repeating today what it did yesterday, rolls on as ineluctably as some vast computer, which, once penetrated by error, duplicates it forever.
